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How to make money from twitter in Nigeria

Social media is a very powerful platform and it has been a very important feature of our everyday lives. Different people use social media for different purposes. Some people use it to stay connected with the ever-evolving world. Others use it as a virtual world in other to escape from reality. But a lot of people are not utilizing the full power of social media platforms. Apart from its normal uses, do you know that you can make a lot of money from social media platforms? So in this post, I will be taking you through how you can be making money from one of the most used social media platform, Twitter.

Selling your Products

You can make money on Twitter by selling your own products. All you need to do is create a Twitter profile for your products, tweets about them and add links of your product on your tweets. Also, you can run Twitter promos, partner with influencers, and use popular hashtags to expose your products to buyers. What If you don’t have your own product to sell? Well, not a problem. You can open an online shop, get a list of products from leading manufacturers around the world to display on the online shop. Whenever someone comes to your shop to buy, the manufactures will ship the product to the buyer and give you your cut. In addition, everything can be done at the comfort of your home

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing simply means referring and promoting products of other companies and getting paid per sale. You can make a lot of money depending on the niche and how engaged your followers. All you have to do is sign up with any affiliate network. Then, look for products and services that will fit in your Twitter theme and get an affiliate link from it. Afterwards, add the link to your tweets and tweet regularly about the product or services.

Twitter Contests

Another way of making money is by organizing a twitter contest. You can do this on your own but it is better you link up with a local business that wants publicity. Offer to hold a contest on Twitter to help with their publicity and ask them to pay a percentage of sales that come in .Furthermore, Make sure that there is a legally binding between both parties in case of future misunderstanding.

News leads

You need to be creative for you to be successful in creating or discovering new leads. Twitter has a good search engine where people can search for what they want. Hence, most Twitter users tweet directly about what they want. All you need to do is reply them if what they want falls into your line of business. In the mean time, you can suggest a promo package to make it more enticing.

Sharing Sponsored Tweets

Celebrities and famous people on Twitter make a lot of money by just tweeting sponsored tweets. You may not be able to make the same amount of money as a celebrity but you can also make some cool cash. All you need to do is charge businesses for tweets from your accounts using ad services. However, you have to be qualified in other to be able to use this service.

Drive traffic

Twitter can be use to drive traffic to your blog or YouTube channel. Then, you can make money from your blog or YouTube channel using services like Google Adsense. All you have to do is share a written content on twitter and make use of popular hashtags to get them discovered.

Other ways to make money from Twitter include: selling your twitter accounts, becoming a social media manager, and becoming a twitter official partner.